2 New Garden Soil Amendments That Science Is Investigating.!

As Gardeners we are always looking for ways to improve our garden soil. This includes things like texture, pH and nutrient capacities. But many garden soil amendments are a waste of money for the garden soil. Here are two however that have a promising future!
New fertilizers
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Effect of Kelp Waste Extracts on the Growth and Development of Pakchoi (Brassica chinensis L.) - PMC
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Ashley has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science.
Some of Ashley’s interests are KZbin, in which she posts informative videos about plants and gardening. The focus of Ashley’s KZbin channel is to bring science to gardening in a way that is informative but also helpful to others learning to garden. She also talks about the importance of having your own garden and the joys of gardening indoors. Ashley continues to study plants in her free time and hopes to expand her KZbin channel as well as her reach to up-and-coming gardeners.
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[@GardeningInCanada]

Hey GICs!❤ I have a horrible cold 😅 so I’m going to be slow with comment answering today. If you are able to help eachother out in the comments I’ll be forever grateful 🙏.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Here are some links you may find interesting! New fertilizers www.researchgate.net/profile/Adekiya-Aruna-Olasekan/publication/341666671_Contribution_of_Biochar_in_Improving_Soil_Health/links/5ed3c1c592851c9c5e6c3d29/Contribution-of-Biochar-in-Improving-Soil-Health.pdf#page=175 Effect of Kelp Waste Extracts on the Growth and Development of Pakchoi (Brassica chinensis L.) - PMC www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5146658/ Seaweeds: Soil Health Boosters for Sustainable Agriculture | SpringerLink link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-44364-1_10 Arsenic www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/_Documents/scienceandtechnical/inorganic_arsenic_seaweed_seafood.pdf Biochar www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10821463/ Biochar in temperate soils: opportunities and challenges cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjss-2021-0047

[@MyFocusVaries]

Follow the advice of the "Call the Midwives" nurses and rest, sleep, hydrate. Go to bed with a cup of tea!

[@RetiredVeteran]

Got to love a Canadian cold. JT might have a vaxx for it. Kidding don't do it, it's the ciw parts maybe. Get better.

[@tammyohlsson7966]

@@MyFocusVarieshope you feel better quickly! Blessings!

[@WhichDoctor1]

my family have been using kelp concentrate fertiliser for decades here in the UK. Its really good stuff

[@MrTfinocchi]

The oodles of different methods and quantities of is mind boggling. You must know the real deal for this issue since you are Thee soil scientist.I appreciate your sharing your knowledge.😊

[@dr.froghopper6711]

Hey, Terra pretta frequently has ceramic bits in it. Many people ask why. Low fire clay bodies mixed with fine organic matter can be made into pots for ollas. Firing the clay burns out the organic matter leaving a porous piece behind. This acts very much like the carbon in biochar. Porous storage of water and nutrients in a durable form that won’t wash out of the soil is good stuff!

[@chrisj4236]

How do we know the ceramic bits are intentional and not just refuse though? Even the biochar, how do we know someone didn't just notice that "black burnt stuff on trash make stink less than grey burnt stuff"?

[@Freeland-Farm]

​@@chrisj4236waste management facility for a city with all organic waste

[@drawyrral]

I use leaf mold with a dash of wood ash then I add more leaf mold and some leaf mold. Not too many kelp beds in my part of Manitoba.

[@Sourman5000]

I keep Mr.Bugbee at the top of my “listen only to his advice” list

[@Freeland-Farm]

Have been making char for years now. I use it in the chicken coop for both inoculation and to control odor. Manure, char, and bedding get added to piles for composting. Char that has not been innoculated is stored outside in contact with soil, and I have found it interesting that the area where soil and "clean" char mingle is loaded with mycilium.

[@GARDENER42]

The island of Jersey, UK used kelp as fertiliser for its fields for hundreds of years, producing the incredible tasting "Jersey Royal" potato (this variety is known elsewhere as International kidney). Around 30 years ago, they ceased this practice & moved to manufactured fertiliser due to this being far less costly & increased yield. Within a few years, these potatoes lost their amazing flavour. I've been using mixed seaweed (at least 50% bladder wrack) in my compost for more than a decade, collecting around 200kg/440lbs dry weight annually. Two years ago started a smaller compost bay where at least half the 'green' component was seaweed. I intend to use this next year mixed 50/50 with commercial, peat free potting material for my container grown International Kidney potatoes & hopefully will see an improvement in flavour. I'm lucky in having a 30/50/20 clay/silt/sand composition, with around 6% organic matter & have been 'no till' for 7-8 years, so cannot see any real benefit from biochar.

[@wyoodrifter1811]

Nice tomato , interesting subject. This past summer I experimented with alfalfa tea and using an alfalfa power for mulch . I was surprised how well it worked and think there is really something to triacontanol plant growth hormone found in alfalfa. With all amendments availability and cost big factor and trying available organics usually cheaper than chemical fertilizer.

[@donteatthefood]

Awesome thank the algorithm gods for finding this channel

[@janw491]

I’ve been using liquid kelp fertilizer for a few years, love it

[@kingdolo23]

The cannabis industry is way ahead

[@RetiredVeteran]

Been using a gaia kelp and other stuff for cannabis. I'm a follow step person and not smart to the understanding of npk numbers and what not. So with set out amount and amendment to soil surface. Experiment with vegetables and things seem to work out great this year compared. But I do find organic costly. But works. Love your vids eh. Fellow 4b gardener.

[@marilynturcotte5304]

I wish you could have shown what "biochar" is. Regarding the kelp, I wonder if Asian Gardeners (Japan, Thailand, that general area of the World) use kelp to garden with. I am sure there are "Kelp farms" in that part of the world.

[@chongli297]

The research into the biochar and its extreme surface area got me thinking of activated carbon used in aquarium filters. I wonder if taking used activated carbon media from an aquarium filter (already loaded with nutrients from the fish poop) would make a decent soil amendment for growing plants? It sounds to me like it would be able to hold onto those nutrients longer so they remain in the soil profile and available to plants! If that works then maybe biochar could also work as a dual-use aquarium filter medium and soil amendment?

[@jouman450]

You're my favorite redhead.

[@virusmyth4930]

Have you ever talked about zeolites? I wonder how it'd fare as a soil ammendment. I've successfully grown potted plants using it as 100% of my soilless mix (1-3mm coarse) plus osmocote as nutrients. All you need is water twice a day with a water with a little calcium, say 100ppm, which I guess is too much work for some people, but not for me. I just add a tiny pinch of gypsum in the water, cos in my place it's rather soft (30ppm). Even the low solubility of gypsum in water is plenty enough to provide the desired calcium. Zeolites have great porosity, decent water retention (depending on granulometry of choice, finer = more water retention), they are basically sterile, have excellent CEC and basically last forever. Some people in the bonsai community rave about it cos it never decomposes so root problems and maintenance/transplanting are minimized with it. Downsides are price which is offset by the fact you can reuse it forever, it is heavy like sand, and the fact you must irrigate often if used in large % of your mix as I did. For bonsai folks this is not an issue since it's already their norm.

[@EireGenX]

Seaweed was always used here in Ireland on bad land.

[@milo-qh7cv]

in begensa corrupt politicians were often used to improve the land fertility. at least in one way they were useful instead of destroying the country

[@FilthyRichTV.]

Love your hair and your glasses ❤

[@wendyburston3132]

Great info thanks.

[@dr.froghopper6711]

Hard to find kelp in the Upper Chihuahuan Desert. I’m beginning to wonder if i could farm algae as a soil amendment. Hope you get to feeling better!

[@PlantObsessed]

Another idea is land plants borage and comfrey. It is not 100% the same, but the plants are good at mining nutrients not usually found. Ashley, nice Mammoth tomato. What type was it?🪱👍🏼😃

[@ebby0808]

Im going to have to watch this video a few times to get all the information contained, especially the stuff about biochar ( which I know very little). Also, do you think duckweed would have similar results as seaweed?

[@Norbingel]

I wonder why kelp would have this effect. We're always told to copy nature but something that's in the sea being good for the soil doesn't seem to be something that nature commonly does, if at all.

[@tammyohlsson7966]

Q: I live in the country where I burn branches and trees a lot. Should I add my bio char to my raised beds. The soil is fabulous, lots of organic matter but water retention is a struggle. I use tree mulch on all my raised beds and flower gardens. I recently purchased a product called soil moist. Hopefully that will help. SE texas, either too wet or completely dry is our weather forecast. Zone 9b. I grow year round. Thanks for any info. Blessings!

[@MrTfinocchi]

I am. Attempting to help my tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers grow fruit I live in hot 9B. My container soil is very alkaline. I bought super triple phosphorous 0-46-0. Im not sure how to cause my plants to intake the fertilizer

[@dreamlovermimi9458]

I love ur hair! What did u use to make it so wavy?

[@sadabahar90song]

keep uploading new videos i like to see you freshi beauty ❤

[@666bruv]

Kelp, New? It's being used for over 1000 years.

[@Shannbyvank-zq6sw]

Kelp ? Sea weed hmm best I can do here in Alberta is some pond scum.

[@nickkitchener6155]

You should do a video where you wear a lab coat and glasses while you pontificate about the science of soils, aggregates, loams, biostrata, and pyrophyllite clays.

[@Raul28153]

you really need a masters or better yet a PhD in your field. Are you heading in that direction? An undergrad degree in the topic does confer upon you the status of authority when addressing the laity (like me). And you know that it does or else you wouldn't be waving it about. But really you don't need to. I can tell just listening to you speak that you are educated in the field. But I gotta say listening to you speak is sometimes a bit of an issue because you tend to not completely enunciate your words or maybe you are just talking so fast that it seems to me that you aren't. Either way I lose a lot of the things you do say to that particular thing.

[@666bruv]

Having a PhD while producing a social media gardening channel is even more cheesey than they already are